Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Once you have been able to forgive, the final step is to either renew or release the relationship you have with the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“But suffering from a life-threatening disease also helped me have a different attitude and perspective. It has given a new intensity to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
